If you’ve never been to this event, now marking its ninth year, you’ve been really missing out. In the last few years, the Heights area has become something of a food heaven. I first moved moved to the neighborhood in 1988, and back then, the restaurant options were not the wasteland that some depict, but neither were we blessed with an overabundance of choices.

Nothing could be further from the truth in 2014. Every major through street in the neighborhood now has multiple restaurant choices, some even multiple award winners. For restaurant-goers around here, it’s good times indeed.

And at Great Taste, you get to see what all the hubbub is about, to live music and beer served by sponsor Saint Arnold’s Brewery. The restaurant participants reads like a who’s who of the Heights top culinary talent. Here’s a list: BB’s Cafe, Beaver’s, Benjy’s, Boomtown Coffee, Cavatore, Chatter’s Cafe, City Oven, Funky Chicken, Fusion Taco, Happy Fatz, Heights General Store, Good Dog Hot Dog, J. Black’s, Lola’s, Max’s Wine Dive, Piatto, Pink’s Pizza, Ruggles Green, Taco’s-a-Go-Go, What’s Up Cupcake and Witchcraft Tavern and Provision Co.

That’s a lot to like right there.

It doesn’t take advanced math to figure out that going to every one of those restaurants in a month would tip over many people’s annual budgets. That’s what makes this event so great. Tickets are $25 in advance and $35 at the door. Basically, for the price of an evening out at any of these places, you get to sample the fare of all 21. That’s what makes Great Taste one of the best ways to showcase just how delicious a neighborhood this is.

To buy tickets online, click here. You can also purchase them in the neighborhood at: Eclectic Home, 345 West 19th; Chatter’s Cafe, 140 South heights Boulevard; C&D Hardware, 314 East 11th; and the All Saints Catholic Church main office at 215 E. 10th.